09 February, 2014

CONGRESS AND SECULARISM

The ex-Chairman of the SIT probing the Ishrat Jahan
encounter case was..?Mt. Satyapal Singh - ex-Police Commissioner of
Mumbai and now a BJP ticket holder.Lovely!!

Congress and Secularism?!! Janaab - Communal
Violence Bill in the last 6 months of tenure. Riots have been taking place for
ever over the last two years.

And Rajiv Gandhi to balance the Shah Bani imbroglio
allowed the shilaniyas.

And @Sam Kadri is cent percent right, [that
Satyapal was DM Ayodhya when idol was planted in Babri Masjid]

You will see five Sikhs grilling a hapless
Surjewala on DoorKnob Goesbarmy's NewsHour. Can you ever imagine five Muslims -
skull cap clad - ever getting to interrogate the Congress or anybody for that
matter - on national TV no less?! That simple scenario brings so much home.

Sikhs are a minority - poor souls - they have had
their hard times. But in India all minorities are not equally minor. So it is
that their SCs enjoy privileges and so do that from the Buddhists - but they
had to still fight for it and the inclusion came as late as 1980 after a lot of
strife.

It would come to what is being done for Muslim
rights and by whom. Before you grant rights you got to have someone to grant
them to. And therefore I ask the question - has the Congress ever apologised
for not being able to protect Muslims? For having failed! No sir.

"On a cold winter evening, a company of the
Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) descended on the Aara Machine Wali Gali at
Hashimpura in Meerut and singled out healthy young Muslim men. As dusk fell,
the men were taken to the banks of the Ganga canal at Muradnagar, hardly 40 km
from Delhi.

The brutal killings there could never have become
public knowledge had it not been for two survivors. One of them, Babuddin, a
handloom worker from Bihar, survived the .303 barrage from PAC rifles, fired
from close range.

Vir Bahadur Singh was then the Congress chief
minister of Uttar Pradesh. The party had a majority in the state assembly. The
central government was led by none other than Rahul Gandhi's father, Rajiv Gandhi.

Yet, that massacre happened. And similar killings
took place elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh: Maliyana, Moradabad, Allahabad, Aligarh
et al."

We could talk of the overblown myth of Muslim
appeasement and perhaps take refuge in the tenuous argument that these
lollipops in some way provide privileges otherwise denied. Like scholarships
for educations, reservations, and so on.

I don't even want to go into the myth - the facts
don't stack up. Commendable work done by this journo Afroz - they call him the
RTI Express. He provides you with some facts - consider this - the SC has got
its knickers in a bind about the princely sum of 260 crores the Government of
India gives away by way of the Haj Subsidy. The last Kumbh at Allahabad cost
upwards of 1800 crores. The next one at Ujjain has got a budget of 2160 crores
- approved.

The state is arraigned against the Muslims. That is
the simple truth. If not against- it is apathetic to their needs. People around
you - now they are a different matter.

When i go looking for a house on rent in Bombay - I
know some societies are off limits. But then there are many that are open - I
have lived here almost all my adult life. You do not see the ugly face of
discrimination as you climb higher up the totem pole. But then how high - Shah
Rukh Khan? Emraan Hashmi was denied the chance to buy a flat in a society in
Bandra. One in which a Christian friend of mine does stay!!

There is a word for it. It is called Islamophobia.

And you do notice that the Congress has not made a
hue and cry about Satyapal - it is the media that notices these things. Most
things where Muslims are hard done by the BJP. Harish Salve and his dubious
conflict of interests when serving as Amicus Curiae. So on and so forth. The
NCERT imbroglio - the academics raised a hue and cry.......the examples are
endless.